Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Why I won't promote Debian as a free software

[Bob Ham]

On 2013-03-07 08:14, MJ Ray wrote:
> Simon Ward <address@hidden>
> > On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 03:27:19PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:

> > That domain name is a sub‐domain of debian.org, which is the domain 
> > for
> > the Debian Project. All of this non‐free software is distributed 
> > under
> > the Debian name.
> >
> > It really doesn’t matter how many times you claim it is separate 
> > just
> > because it is “not in main”, and it really doesn’t matter how many 
> > times
> > Debian does the same.
>
> Yeah, and domains, names and trademarks are exactly the same, right?
> It's disappointing to find this "intellectual property"-style 
> equation
> confusion even among this group.

Dafuq?!


> > If a distribution endorsed as a free system distribution by the FSF 
> > is
> > caught breaking its policies, the fact that it is a bug for them too 
> > is
> > ignored, and they get slated badly for it.
> >
> > Why should Debian get favourable treatment? (Bear in mind that I am 
> > only
> > counting free software criteria here.)
>
> Because we don't start trumpeting that we've achieved 0 freedom bugs
> while shipping obvious nonsense like nvidia's drivers or acroread.

Who does that?


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Bob Ham <address@hidden>

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